Untitled (hirezaki-eiho)

A sixteenth untitled print by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968) from his bijin-ga practice. Eiho's longevity — he lived until 1968, well into the era of postwar Japanese printmaking and the international market for Meiji and Taisho prints — means that his work was assessed and reassessed across several different collecting eras, each with different criteria for what constituted quality in bijin-ga. His reputation has remained consistently high through these reassessments, a testament to the genuine quality of observation and feeling his best work embodies.